Jacob Bitzer
# Jacob Bitzer

Jacob Bitzer (January 16, 1865 – February 19, 1946) was an American businessman, real estate agent, and politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

## Early life

Bitzer was born to John and Dorothea (Beck) Bitzer on January 16, 1865, in Dürrwangen, Kingdom of Württemberg.

### Education

Bitzer attended the Cutter School in Arlington, Massachusetts, graduating in 1879.

## Business career

After he graduated from the Cutter School, Bitzer started a six-year apprentice working for the Welch & Griffiths saw works in Arlington. At the end of his apprenticeship the company went out of business. After he left the employ of Welch & Griffiths Bitzer went to work as a mill hand, on an irregular moulding machine, in the mill of Theodore Schwamb, a manufacturer of piano cases.

In 1897, when the Schwamb Mill was incorporated, Bitzer became a stockholder, and clerk of the corporation. In 1908 Bitzer was the assistant superintendent of the mill in charge of the mill department.

## Republican National Convention

Bitzer was an alternative delegate to the Republican National Convention of 1912.

## Massachusetts House of Representatives

On November 3, 1914, Bitzer was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives representing the twenty seventh Middlesex District, Bitzer received 1,372 in a three way race that included fellow Arlington Resident Cyrus Edwin Dallin; James F. McCarthy of Lexington, Massachusetts. Bitzer served in the legislature from 1915 to 1919. During the 1917 legislative session Bitzer was a member of the Committee on Public Institutions, and the Committee on Ways and Means.

